This is an analysis of the poem Drumnotes that begins with:

Days of the dead men, Danny.
Drum for the dead, drum on your...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb XcdXdXXXdcXcXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001110 1101111 01001 1011101 01010011 100011111 0111 11001101010 100010010 1011001101 0101101110 101111011 1010 110110100100 001001 100110 11101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

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